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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Drivers
- 3 Obtaining XvMC capable drivers for your chipset
- 4 Compiling/Installing the driver
- 5 Configuring xorg.conf
- 6 Enabling the chipset library
- 7 Checking your installation
- 8 MythTV XvMC Support
- 9 Hardware acceleration processes not yet supported by XvMC
- 10 External Links
( Current as of May 1, 2008)
X-Video Motion Compensation, or XvMC, is a standardized API in The X Window System which allows video programs to offload motion compensation and iDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) portions of MPEG-2 decoding to the GPU hardware, through the use of XvMC enabled drivers. XvMC can greatly reduce CPU utilization when playing back MPEG-2 video. In theory it should also reduce bus bandwidth requirements. Savings will be most dramatic with slow CPUs or when playing HDTV. SDTV will benefit as well, but most modern CPUs can already play back SDTV without XvMC. MythTV can be compiled to use XvMC for native playback. External players such as Xine and Mplayer can also be compiled to support XvMC.
Currently, only MPEG-2 is supported. This is usually a hardware limitation, but can also in some chips case be a device driver limitation. As an exception, one of the newer VIA Unichrome chips is capable of XvMC accelerated MPEG-4 playback, but it is not supported by the official UniChrome driver at the time of writing this, instead you have to turn to the openChrome project drivers (which has an updated forked version of libxvmc).
A new video acceleration API is being developed, in an effort lead by Intel. This new API supports more complete offload (VLD) as well as iDCT+MC, and can support acceleration of MPEG-4 ASP (H.263), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), VC-1/VMW3, as well as MPEG-2. The website for this effort is located at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi. XvMC-vld is also available on Via Unichrome-Pro chipsets, through the openchrome driver.
Some users have also provided a chart of example CPU savings
Each hardware video card capable of XvMC video acceleration requires a software driver to enable these features. Below is a list of the recommended software drivers and driver versions for each supported hardware type.
| Any recent version of the driver is acceptable. See the Nvidia page for more details. Be careful though: some nVidia cards do not support XvMC: the only cards that support XvMC are those that support nVidia "PureVideo", which is not the case for most motherboard GPUs such as the GeForce 7 series. Geforce 8 and later do not support XvMC. This is a hardware and driver limitation. Use VDPAU instead. The latest NVidia driver packages support XvMC on hardware which supports XvMC instead of VDPAU.
"The 173.14.09 release includes support for the XVideo Motion Compensation (XvMC) version 1.0 API on GeForce 5 series, GeForce 6 series and GeForce 7 series addin cards, as well as motherboard chipsets with integrated graphics that have PureVideo support." [1]
|Included version
|Included with Xorg distribution
|Included version
|Included in Xorg 6.9 and above distributions.
|i810 or intel
|Included version
|Included in Xorg distribution
|At this time, there is no XvMC support for ATI cards in Linux drivers
|MPEG-2 HW acceleration (only support Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4) on some Chrome 20 GPUs made by S3 company
Obtaining XvMC capable drivers for your chipset
Available drivers
In order for MythTV to utilize the XvMC feature of your video chipset, you need to install the appropriate XvMC-enabled driver for your distribution. Drivers are presently available for NVidia, Via Unichrome and Intel video chipsets. There are presently (May, 2008) no XvMC enabledd ATI drivers. ATI has been releasing upgraded drivers for Radeon 8500 or so chipsets and as of November 2008, version 8.10 appears to have an unannounced XvMC capability. See the wiki here and ATI's site here.
The installation process will vary by chipset and distribution but some general recommendations can be made. There are main three steps: installing the driver (including compiling in some cases), revising xorg.conf and XvMCConfig to enable XvMC, and, finally, setting the playback profile in Mythtv (see the Playback_profiles page.
XvMCW libraries
For many distributions, a separate XvMCW (Wrapper) library package can be installed. This is the library that MythTV will use to hook into the XvMC support in the driver. It provides a common interface for applications wishing to use XvMC.
yum install libXvMCW
or the equivalent will do the trick. This may already be installed by your distribution.
NVIDIA Chipsets
For NVIDIA chipsets, the open source nv driver is provided in all distributions. The nv driver does not enable XvMC. NVidia provides a closed source binary driver installer package on their website which gives an XvMC enabled driver. Clicking on the 'Archive' link, below the first listed driver will disclose not only the older "legacy" drivers, but also other more recent drivers. Download and follow the instructions there for executing the package and installing the modules.
In Fedora
The ATRPMS site packages nvidia drivers for installation on new Fedora distributions and the RPMFusion site has packages for some older distributions as well as newer.
In Ubuntu
The Envy project provides binary packages for Ubuntu and Debian to quickly install and configure nvidia drivers and XvMC support. It also will install the binary ATI drivers which do not, however, support XvMC.
VIA Unichrome Chipsets
For via unichrome chipsets, go to Openchrome.org to download the source code or for links to binary driver packages. Note that not all features of the unichrome chipsets, especially TV-out, are presently working, but XvMC appears to be working on all chipsets using video-out (VGA/DVI).
This thread throws some light on many issues people have been facing with recent distributions; MythDora5 works out of the box with Via SP13000 MB which has a CN400 chipset however MythBuntu 810 & 904 do not work. A patch has been provided in this thread which may be of help to Intrepid 8.10 users - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6269306&postcount=14. There are similar patches from the same provider for various other distributions.
Intel Chipsets
(Revised January 1, 2010)
Intel chipsets are often considered 'low-powered' but in fact the drivers have been deficient in enabling the capabilities of the hardware. XvMC has had a chequered history. As of May 1, 2008, the intel driver which was included in most distributions did NOT enable XvMC, except on i810 and i815 chipsets. XvMC was then made available through the xf86-video-intel driver as of version 2.3.0 on all Intel chipsets. XvMC capability was later disabled in the 2.6.0 and subsequent driver versions due to problems.
XVMC has now been re-enabled in driver version 2.9.0 for all chipsets. A frame size limitation of 720x576 pixel frames was also removed so that XvMC is available for 1920x1080 frame sizes.
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Fedora 11 as distributed, has XvMC disabled. Driver version 2.9.0 was released September 29, 2009 and has been included in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and Fedora 12 together with the required X server version 1.6. XvMC can be enabled with the correct options in xorg.conf.
The latest driver version is available as a source tar from:
or through git from
$ git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
Compiling/Installing the driver
The nvidia installer binary runs from runlevel 3. Edit the first uncommented line in /etc/inittab to read:
and reboot. (Reverse the edit after the installation). The installer binary will install the driver in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers and the accompanying libraries in /usr/lib.
NOTE: DO not attempt to use the experimental vdpau drivers (180 series). The vdpau driver setup installs non-standard header files in addition to the driver files. Other chipsets will fail to operate if the non-standard headers are installed. The installation is not reversed by the uninstall script provided. It is also not clear whether non-vdpau capable nvidia hardware will operate properly with the vdpau enabled driver. Possibly but without xvmc.
VIA Unichrome
To get the latest code using anonymous subversion, cd to a scratch space and use:
svn co http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome
'cd' into the newly created openchrome sub-directory, and do the 'configure && make && make install' cycle. The openchrome.org website has some good documentation. The openchrome users list is a good resource as well.
Requirements for Compilation:
(seriously revised January 1, 2010)
Since driver version 2.9.0 or 2.9.1 is now available in mainstream repositories there is no real need to compile from source. The following is retained for reference purposes only.
Note: if you obtain the driver and the xserver tars from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/ a 'configure --prefix=/usr' && make && make install' on the xserver as root should suffice to build the driver.
The Driver Source is available at:
or get the driver source by running:
$ git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
Unpack the tarball (if required) and 'cd' into the xf86-video-intel directory which has been created. If you downloaded the tarball, run ./configure --prefix=/usr.
If you downloaded with git, run './autogen.sh' Autogen.sh creates and then runs 'configure'
Compile Time:
By default configure wants to build (and install) in /usr/local/, but we want everything in /usr so that xorg works as usual. So re-run configure as follows, whichever version you are building.
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr $ make $ sudo make install
The 'make install' step will install the intel_drv.so driver in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers and the libIntelXvMC.so.1.0.0 library in /usr/lib. The libI810XvMC.so driver will be installed in the same place or may be replaced by a symlink to the libIntelXvMC library.
Check that the driver was put into the correct place. If you are unsure, check in /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. If the new driver is there, you forgot to (re-)run configure with --prefix=/usr since it should be in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
Check that (or revise as necessary to put) '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers' and '/usr/lib/xorg/extensions are listed in /etc/ld.so.conf.
Run ldconfig one last time, to tell the kernel about the new driver.
The easy answer to getting XvMC working on an Intel chipset is to upgrade your installation to Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10 or the equivalent which have everything already built. You can download the driver tarball from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/ and if necessary, the server from ...individual/xserver, and use those. They require compilation but rarely give problems. Using the git sources ranks much lower compared to the other options.
Configuring xorg.conf
Each chipset driver has specific configuration options to enable XvMC.
Appendix B to the Nvidia Driver README details the available xorg.conf switches.
Use the 'nvidia-settings' or 'nvidia-config' control panel program to disable Video Texture Adapter and/or Video Blitter Adapter "Sync to VBlank" checkboxes (on the "X Server XVideo Settings" page)
Revise /etc/X11/xorg.conf, modifying the Device Section to add 3 Options. The resulting section may look something like this:
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "false" # necessary for color Chromakey OSD) Option "NVAGP" "1" # some users report 2 or 3 works better EndSection
Note that since driver version 100.14.11 there is a bug for users of AGP cards in the nvidia driver that requires the NVAGP option set to 0 (turning off agpgart support). See this nvidia forums post for more info.
The following option appears to be required for XvMC use with nvidia chipsets, especially when using the Chromakey OSD. This turns off the 'Compiz eye-candy'. (The 'Extensions' option is a part of xorg.conf, and is a replacement for SubSections which were used to pass Options to a specific module. Since modules are now 'automagically' loaded through extmod, the "Modules" section has disappeared. The 'Extensions' section is the replacement for that capability.)
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disabled" EndSection
Enabling the UseEvents option can sometimes bring out an issue with the nvidia driver resulting in a blue line around the screen. To fix this simply run the following somewhere during your Xorg startup:
xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048
Refer to this section on the Nvidia proprietary driver page for more information.
VIA Unichrome
Many Via based motherboards and especially the EPIA motherboards have video *and* TV outputs. The TV output can be sent directly to a standard NTSC or PAL (CRT-style) TV. These motherboards have a setting in the BIOS which must be set to enable the dual outputs. In addition, the dual outputs must be enabled in xorg.conf. XvMC is enabled by default on chipsets which support it, but depends upon certain extensions, especially 'dri'. Revise xorg.conf as follows:
Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "CardTV" Driver "via" VendorName "VIA" # Optional BoardName "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter" Option "Active Device" "CRT TV" Option "TVType" "NTSC" Option "TVOutput" "S-Video" Option "EnableAGPDMA" "1" EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0666 EndSection
The 'intel' man page which should be installed with the driver contains a full listing of the switches now available. Revise /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "intel" Option "XvMCSurfaces" "7" # for i810/i815 chipsets only, otherwise # XvMC is disabled Option "XvMC" "true" # enable XvMC chipsets after i815 # default is disabled Option "UseEvents" "true" ## The following 2 options should be used together, and may or may not make a difference to CPU load Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" # "XAA and "EXA" have been removed from the latest driver Option "CacheLines" "xxxx" # Allows the user to change the amount of graphics # memory used for 2D acceleration and video when # XAA acceleration is enabled. # Decreasing leaves more for 3D textures. Increasing # can improve 2D performance at the expense of 3D. # xxxx=8192/16384/32768 etc. # Note AccelMethod XAA does not appear to work with Xvmc enabled. Testing required. EndSection
Note that the intel driver, like the latest nvidia driver loads all the required extensions by default and does not require a 'Module' section in xorg.conf. The Intel linux graphics page states that xorg.conf requires
Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
Due to the fact that all extensions are loaded by default, without a "Modules" section, this Section is not required (DRI is enabled without it), but it actually may do something....
Enabling the chipset library
Each chipset provides an interface between the XvMC library and the actual driver. This is usually handled by what is called the XvMCW wrapper library. The XVMCW library looks to a text configuration file in order to find the correct XvMC library. XvMC will not be enabled if the XvMCConfig file refers to the XvMCW library. The wrapper configuration file is found at /etc/X11/XvMCConfig and you either may have to create this file yourself as it is sometimes not pre-installed even though it is needed, or edit it to remove the libXvMCW.so reference and replace it with the proper reference.
This file contains a single line consisting of the driver library name:
libXvMCVIA.so or libXvMCVIAPro.so (depending on the chipset)
Note that the Intel driver requires the absolute pathname of the library. If you used a package (atrpms, livna) based driver installation, you might also be able to find the library name by doing
rpm -ql <driver-package> | grep -i xvmc
and look for library names that include the XvMC text.
Checking your installation
You will have to reboot. To check if XvMC is properly enabled, run:
$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Motion
and you should see:
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
If you try: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i XvMC your driver might also report loading the options such as:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "XvMCUsesTextures" "True"
with VIA SP13000 this will be:
(II) CHROME(0): [XvMC] Registering chromeXvMCPro. (II) CHROME(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension.
If you are having problems, or are just unsure whether your setup is correct, you can compile this small program and run it. If it will not build, then you probably do not have the pre-requisites and no wonder your xvmc will not work! I do not know who gave this program to me, but Michal Podsiadlik <michal (et) gov.one.pl and Ken Harris deserve the credit for writing it.
/* ** XvMC extension info program ** ** author: ** Michal Podsiadlik <michal (et) gov.one.pl> ** Ken Harris : fixed some bugs with the "chroma" and "codec" fields, 2005-10-01 ** ** compile using this command (I hope ;-)) ** gcc -o xvmcinfo xvmcinfo.c -lXvMCW * */ #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <X11/extensions/XvMClib.h> void usage(char *c) { fprintf(stderr, "usage:\n" "%s [-display displayname]\n", c); exit(1); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { Display *xserver; int iscreen; char *display = NULL; if (argc != 1 && argc != 3) usage(argv[0]); if (argc == 3) { if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-display")) display = argv[2]; else usage(argv[0]); } xserver = XOpenDisplay(display); if (!xserver) { fprintf(stderr, "failed to connect to display: %s\n", display); return 1; } { unsigned int xv_major, xv_minor, x, y, z; if (XvQueryExtension(xserver, &xv_major, &xv_minor, &x, &y, &z) != Success) { fprintf(stderr, "no Xv extension available\n"); XCloseDisplay(xserver); return 1; } printf("\n" "Xv version %i.%i\n", xv_major, xv_minor); } { int xvmc_major, xvmc_minor; if (XvMCQueryVersion(xserver, &xvmc_major, &xvmc_minor) != Success) { fprintf(stderr, "no XvMC extension available\n"); XCloseDisplay(xserver); return 1; } printf("XvMC version %i.%i\n\n", xvmc_major, xvmc_minor); } for (iscreen = 0; iscreen < ScreenCount(xserver); iscreen++) { unsigned int iadapt, num_adaptors; XvAdaptorInfo *adaptor_info; printf("screen number %i\n", iscreen); XvQueryAdaptors(xserver, RootWindow(xserver, iscreen), &num_adaptors, &adaptor_info); if (!num_adaptors) { printf(" no Xv adaptors found\n"); continue; } for (iadapt = 0; iadapt < num_adaptors; iadapt++) { int isurf, num_surfaces; XvMCSurfaceInfo *xvmc_info; printf(" info for adaptor %i [%s]\n", iadapt, adaptor_info[iadapt].name); xvmc_info = XvMCListSurfaceTypes(xserver, adaptor_info[iadapt].base_id, &num_surfaces); printf(" number of XvMC surface types: %i\n\n", num_surfaces); for (isurf = 0; isurf < num_surfaces; isurf++) { static char *codec[] = { "", "MPEG1", "MPEG2", "H263", "MPEG4" }; // XXXX HACK static char *chroma[] = { "", "XVMC_CHROMA_FORMAT_420 ", "XVMC_CHROMA_FORMAT_422 ", "XVMC_CHROMA_FORMAT_444 " }; // XXXX HACK printf(" info about surface %i:\n" " max_width=%i\n" " max_height=%i\n" " subpicture_max_width=%i\n" " subpicture_max_height=%i\n" " chroma_format:\n" " %s\n" " mc_type:\n" " format : %s\n" " accelaration start from : %s\n" " flags:\n" " %s%s%s%s\n\n", isurf, xvmc_info[isurf].max_width, xvmc_info[isurf].max_height, xvmc_info[isurf].subpicture_max_width, xvmc_info[isurf].subpicture_max_height, /* chroma_format */ chroma[xvmc_info[isurf].chroma_format & 0xf], /* mc_type */ codec[xvmc_info[isurf].mc_type & 0xf], xvmc_info[isurf].mc_type & XVMC_IDCT ? "IDCT " : "MOCOMP ", /* flags */ xvmc_info[isurf].flags & XVMC_OVERLAID_SURFACE ? "XVMC_OVERLAID_SURFACE " : "", xvmc_info[isurf].flags & XVMC_BACKEND_SUBPICTURE ? "XVMC_BACKEND_SUBPICTURE " : "", xvmc_info[isurf].flags & XVMC_SUBPICTURE_INDEPENDENT_SCALING ? "XVMC_SUBPICTURE_INDEPENDENT_SCALING " : "", xvmc_info[isurf].flags & XVMC_INTRA_UNSIGNED ? "XVMC_INTRA_UNSIGNED " : ""); } XFree(xvmc_info); } XvFreeAdaptorInfo(adaptor_info); } XCloseDisplay(xserver); return 0; }
MythTV XvMC Support
Packages and Distributions
Most package and distributions of MythTV should have XvMC enabled by default. You can check your version by doing
mythfrontend --version
and looking for
Options compiled in: linux release using_oss using_alsa using_jack using_backend using_dbox2 using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_lirc using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_xvmc using_xvmcw using_xvmc_vld using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads using_libavc_5_3 using_live
If you see options like
using_xvmc and
using_xvmcw then your Myth system is prepared for XvMC.
Compiling from source
When you run configure, if you have the proper XvMC development files installed (libXvMC-devel, libXvMCW-devel) , you should see this type of output from the configure script:
# Video Output Support x11 support yes xrandr support yes xv support yes XvMC support yes XvMC VLD support yes XvMC pro support yes XvMC OpenGL sup. no XvMC libs -lXvMCW
The last libs line will tell you which libraries that MythTV is compiling against. In this case, it is the XvMC wrapper mentioned above. For some, it may be the nvidia libraries. But regardless, you need to see yes before building MythTV.
If installing MythTV on Gentoo Linux, make sure video card is properly configured in /etc/make.conf to include, "i810", "nvidia" or "via". The "xvmc" USE flag is also required. These flags can usually be set on a per package basis in /etc/portage/package.use, for example:
$ cat /etc/portage/package.use media-tv/mythtv xvmc
Or globally for all packages in /etc/make.conf via USE="xvmc"
Configuring MythTV
Note: When running mythfrontend for the first time to test XvMC, try running it from a command window so you can see the output from mythfrontend. If mythfrontend cannot load the XvMC library, you will see a line in the logs about this when starting playback and you will see log entries about xvmc not being available
XvMC usage is controlled using the Playback profiles feature of MythTV as of version 0.21. In previous versions, you simply set the Preferred MPEG-2 Decoder to one of the XvMC methods appropriate for your chipset. With 0.21, this is a more flexible configuration allowing for different decoders depending on the content. For XvMC, the Bob deinterlacer provides the best deinterlacing but with some performance penalty.
Warning: Do not configure your Playback profile for more than one CPU when using XvMC. This will crash the frontend when attempting to playback recordings.
Sometimes the OpenGL VSync feature can affect XvMC use and performance. This can be enabled or disabled in the frontend configuration if compiled into your MythTV system.
If your on screen display is greyscale, then XvMC is working and you are using the softblend OSD. If you are experiencing performance issues related to the OSD (on screen display), disabling the OSD fade will improve this greatly. You can also try using the Chromakey OSD
The chromakey OSD will provide a color OSD and for many chipsets, this also uses far less CPU resources, making playback smoother.
Using other applications
If you use other applications for playback in MythVideo such as mplayer or xine, each has its own configuration options for using XvMC
MPlayer includes an XvMC output plugin. To use it, try this:
mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc
(assuming you are running mplayer with XvMC support compiled in)
- Note - unichrome support in mplayer requires a patch.
Xine's has two plugins for XvMC support, the first is named xvmc as you would expect, however to take advantage of XvMC acceleration on nVidia graphics cards using the nVidia binary drivers they have a seperate plugin named xxmc (xx instead of xv).
To use Xine with XvMC support for most graphics cards use:
xine -V xvmc
To use Xine with XvMC support for nVidia graphics cards use:
xine -V xxmc
(assuming, of course, that xine has been compiled with XvMC support.)
Hardware acceleration processes not yet supported by XvMC
XvMC does have the potential for more than it currently features it supports today. Modern graphic processors (since the DirectX 9 generation and newer) support more than just accelerating motion compensation and iDCT, and they can support more video formats than only MPEG-2 as XvMC does today. NVIDIA's PureVideo Technology and ATI's AVIVO Technology support hardware accelerated video decoding for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), and WMV3 (often referred to as WMV9 because Microsoft released it as the same time as Windows Media Player 9). Unfortunate, neither NVIDIA or ATI have yet to open up those technologies to Linux nor the API documentations to the open source community, and no publicly known attempt to reverse engineer access to those APIs have been made.
As a temporary (or permanent) solution to this, shaders in and/or Cg code could be written for these processes and added to the XvMC library to gain some of the additional advantages that GPU assisted video decoding brings and Shader Model 3.0 based GPUs can support today. (Best would be if FFmpeg was used as a reference codec and player/utility). Both NVIDIA and ATI have extensive tools for creating and maintaining the process of developing shaders easier than it has been in the past.
Processes that can be accelerated for most video formats
- Motion compensation (mo comp)
- Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (iDCT)
- Inverse Telecine 3:2 and 2:2 pull-down correction
- Inverse modified discrete cosine transform (iMDCT)
- in-loop deblocking
- intra-frame prediction
- inverse quantization (IQ)
- Variable Length Decoding (VLD)
- More commonly known as slice level acceleration
- Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
- Plus automatic interlace/progressive source detection
- Bitstream processing (CAVLC/CABAC)


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The Ales for ALS campaign is designed to raise money for ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, research.
As part of the program, brewers received a special blend of "experimental hops" donated by B.T. Loftus Ranches and Hopunion. With the hops, brewers are to brew a beer and donate a portion to the ALS Therapy Development Institute.
Next week, the first of these beers, the Harpoon Session IPA, will debut at the Harpoon Beer Hall. For every pint sold, $1 will be donated.
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Connecticut: Willimantic Brewing Company.
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Massachusetts: Samuel Adams, Cambridge Brewing Company, Harpoon Brewery and Wormtown Brewery.
Missouri: Mother's Brewing Company.
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New Mexico: La Crumbe Brewing Company and Marble Brewery.
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North Carolina: Front Street Brewery.
Ohio: Fat Head's Brewing Company, Great Lakes Brewing Company.
Oregon: Deschutes Brewery Public house, Full Sail Brewing Company.
Utah: Unita Brewing Company.
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Editorial: Restoring faith in Justice
If there is one thing we have learned from the Bush administration, it is that this is not an organization that learns from — or admits — its mistakes.
From its failure to plan for the aftermath of the Iraq invasion to the president's puzzling nomination of Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court to the botched response to Hurricane Katrina that reverberates two years later, the Bush White House has proved itself far more adept at deflecting blame for its own bad judgment than learning from it.
Bush's selection of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general in 2005 was yet another personnel decision in which the president put his loyalty to his Texas circle of friends before the well-being of the nation. Later that year, Bush demonstrated this trait again with the nomination of Miers — a lawyer with no judicial record — to the nation's highest court.
By the time Gonzales became attorney general in February 2005, he already had taken part in one of the administration's darker chapters of the war on terror. In 2004, he and White House chief of staff Andrew Card visited then-Attorney General John Ashcroft at George Washington Hospital, where Ashcroft was being treated for gallstone pancreatitis. Gonzales and Card visited the ailing attorney general in an attempt to get his approval on a domestic surveillance program that Ashcroft's Department of Justice had earlier deemed illegal.
Concerned that the White House was trying to take advantage of Ashcroft's sickness, deputy attorney general James Comey and FBI Director Robert Mueller sped to the hospital, arriving just before Gonzales and Card. Ashcroft, weak and sick, refused to sign documents approving the surveillance program. The incident nearly triggered a mass resignation in the Justice Department.
We didn't know about that incident until last May, when Comey recounted it during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was investigating Gonzales' firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. That investigation eventually showed a politicization of the Justice Department that made Gonzales the target of sharp criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Gonzales himself gave maddeningly confused and contradictory testimony to the judiciary committee.
All of this undermined public faith in the Justice Department. As government's main arm in fighting government corruption, the Justice Department and its U.S. attorney's offices across the country are especially mindful of protecting their integrity. As details filtered out of Karl Rove's meddling and Gonzales' odd state of unawareness in Justice Department dealings, the administration faced a tremendous crisis.
It seemed, however, that the only person in Washington unaware of this was President Bush. Even this week, when Gonzales finally stepped down, Bush blamed his political enemies for dragging Gonzales' name "through the mud."
Now Bush has a chance to make an appointment that could restore faith in the Justice Department. He managed to do something similar with his replacement of the polarizing Donald Rumsfeld with Robert Gates in December. The problem for Bush in this case is that the administration's serial foibles may now compound themselves.
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has been mentioned as a possible successor to Gonzales, but surely his nomination will sink as the nation remembers the post-Katrina disaster. We believe U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald would be a worthy candidate. But he was judged "mediocre" by Gonzales' office. And we doubt Vice President Cheney would relish adding the man who successfully prosecuted his former chief of staff to the Cabinet (which leads to another political tangent we won't pursue here).
Were our space not running short, we would go on and on with more examples. We have seen the danger of the nation's highest law enforcement officer putting politics and personal loyalty over principle. We hope the president has as well, though recent history suggests we limit our optimism.
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In another outstanding study, Situationist Contributor Julia M. Puaschunder (with her collaborator Gary Schwarz at the University of Nottingham) suggests ways to implement intergenerational equity on a global scale.
An international survey presented respondents with public policy choices and asked to allocate tax units to different policies in the domains of culture, economics, education, foreign aid, infrastructure and environment.
Evaluating two policies with different outcome times – one more imminently and one that would benefit future generations – at once elicited more intergenerationally equitable outcomes than when deciding over bills with different impact times one at a time. When individuals judge alternative choices, presenting the viewpoints of two generations concurrently balanced intergenerational contributions.
Finding this intergenerational equilibrium pattern in Asia and the U.S. leverages the joint decision making advantage into a human-imbued nudge to overcome global common goods dilemmas. Based on the results, policy makers are advised to consider a multi-faceted decision schema and set up age-differentiated global governance consortia.
Download the full paper 'The Future is Now: How Joint Decision Making Curbs Hyperbolic Discounting but Blurs Social Responsibility in The Intergenerational Equity Public Policy Domain" for free here.
Situationist Contributor Julia M. Puaschunder is an Associate of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for the Environment working on intergenerational equity constraints in the domains of environmental sustainability, overindebtedness and social welfare reform of an aging Western world population.
Related Situationist posts:
- Baumeister on the Situation of Self-Regulation
- Warming World or Just World?
- The Situation of Self-Regulation
- The Situation of Fairness – 2
- The Situation of Fairness
- The Situation of Climate Change
- Jeffrey Sachs on the Situation of Global Poverty
- Changing Choices by Changing Situations
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DETROIT - When General Motors engineers and designers started work on the next-generation Corvette, they drew up the usual requirements for the star of American muscle cars.
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The new Corvette could not be a gas guzzler. Stricter government rules were forcing a leap in fuel economy. If the car burned too much gas, it would trigger fines from regulators and never get built.
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Getting there was tough for the 1,000-member Corvette team, which gave the car the code name "C7." GM's bankruptcy slowed development twice. With each delay, new safety and gas mileage regulations forced changes. The Corvette team overhauled the car: aluminum replaced steel, super-light rivets held parts together, and the V-8 engine kicked down to four cylinders at highway speeds, saving fuel.
All the changes helped it overcome nine years of government crash safety requirements that could have bloated the car. But even with the lighter materials, the regulations have pushed its weight to a little more than the current base model's 3,200 pounds. Still, it's an engineering achievement. The Corvette is so new that it only shares two parts with the current model.
GM said testing is still being done on the car's fuel economy, but it'll be better than the current base model's 16 mpg in the city and 26 on the highway. Juechter said the window sticker highway mileage won't reach 30 mpg, but he wouldn't be surprised to see some drivers get that or more.
The car's usual buyers - men in their mid-50s - will also notice dramatic changes on the outside of the two-seat car. The hood slopes low to slice through the wind. All the vents and scoops have functional purposes like cooling the brakes or transmission.
On the back, designers took cues from the1963 Corvette, with a sloping roof that tapers toward the bottom. The car has a small Stingray badge on each side, complete with gills. And there's a more modern rendition of the Corvette's crossed-flag logo.
A 6.2-liter small-block V-8 with 450 horsepower takes the car from zero to 60 mph in under four seconds. That's at least a few tenths of a second faster than the current base model.
Engineers also redesigned the somewhat-chintzy interior, giving it a jet cockpit look with leather, carbon fiber and soft plastics.
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The company won't quote a price on the 2014 model. But Juechter said someone who bought the current version can afford the new one. The Corvette starts at $49,600. That is more than $30,000 below what GM considers its chief competitor, the Porsche 911. The car makes a decent profit for GM despite relatively low sales, Juechter said.
GM wouldn't give sales targets for the new car. Last year it sold only 14,000 of the aging Corvettes, down from over 30,000 the first few years after the current version was rolled out. Porsche sold about 8,500 911s last year.
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This is Part IV of my series, exploring the reasons why lawyers acquiesce in their clients' frauds and other misconduct. For background, please access Part I, Part II and Part III of this series. In this segment, I will focus on the relationship between lawyers' "role ideology"—normative visions about their professional role—and the inclination to "go along to get along" when their high status clients (or, more accurately, high-paying client representatives) want to engage in financial shenanigans that impact our capital markets.
Don't think this is an issue? It is now 2010 and we are still recovering from the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. No doubt, some lawyers looked the other way when their client representatives wanted to engage in deception. The difficulty for researchers like me who want to learn more about this type of problem is that information about the lawyer-client relationship is ordinarily privileged (to be sure, there are a number of exceptions, e.g., the crime-fraud exception). Luckily, we have the following story of the former associate general counsel of Lehman Brothers, based on some excellent reporting by James Sterngold of (Bloomberg) BusinessWeek, which you can directly access here: Lehman Bros. story.
But here's a brief synopsis of the news story from BusinessWeek:
Oliver Budde faced a momentous life decision. In February 2006, he had resigned from his position as associate general counsel from Lehman Brothers, a venerable (and publicly traded) investment bank in which he worked for nine years. He had been disappointed with the lack of transparency in how his firm had disclosed certain long-term restricted stock units (RSUs) that were granted to senior executives, including former chief executive officer (CEO) Richard S. Fuld Jr. After raising the issue with his superiors in the general counsel's office, he was told that Lehman's outside attorneys at a prestigious law firm had blessed the policy to exclude unvested RSUs from the annual compensation tables in the SEC filings. Budde disagreed with this aggressive interpretation of the rules and voiced his objections. Eventually, he quit the firm.
Later on that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it would require the clear reporting of unvested RSUs and other stock-based awards in public filings. Eager to see if the firm would now fully disclose the controverted RSUs, Budde pored over the proxy statement released in March 2008. "I looked several times, and my jaw just dropped," he said. "What happened to the RSUs?"
After performing some calculations, Budde determined that CEO Fuld's compensation was $409.5 million, rather than the mere $146 million disclosed in the proxy statement. Apparently, Lehman had counted only two of fifteen RSU grants. After considering his options, Budde decided to blow the whistle and report Lehman's noncompliance to the SEC and Lehman's board of directors. On April 14, 2008, he sent a detailed two-page e-mail to the SEC's Division of Enforcement. After describing Fuld's failure to disclose more than $250 million in RSU grants, Budde wrote:
The last thing the country needs right now is another investment bank in crisis. I have wrestled with this over the past five weeks, since I first read the proxy. This is not a shot at retribution, and I am in no way a disgruntled former employee (disappointed, even disgusted, yes). I walked away freely from Lehman, and my ethical concerns in a number of areas were no secret to my superiors there. (Sterngold)
For his efforts, Budde received only a form "thank you" letter from the SEC. His letters to the Lehman board were also ignored. But Budde's calculations were supported by a Yale Journal of Regulation article entitled, "The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman, 2000-2008" (Bebchuk et al.). Of course, as it turned out, potential securities fraud was just one of the myriad problems afflicting Lehman at that time. In September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. (Sterngold)
The Oliver Budde story raises a number of questions, the answers to which we still do not know. One wonders: to what extent did the in-house and outside lawyers of Lehman Brothers (other than Budde) actively engage their client representatives (CEO Fuld among others) on whether it was ethically proper to exclude unvested RSUs from the annual compensation tables in the SEC public filings? Setting aside whether it was explicitly required by the SEC regulations at the time, didn't the concealment of material amounts of compensation cause the lawyers to at least pause and consider the ethical implications, especially in light of public furor over runaway executive compensation?
My guess is that if those lawyers paused, they didn't pause for long. It is likely that by the time this issue arose at Lehman Brothers, experienced lawyers had (more or less) fallen into the habit of analyzing ethical problems in a way that bleaches out the moral content. Social psychologists call this gradual transformation "ethical fading."
More provocatively and more generally, I wonder whether societal views about lawyers' role can in fact contribute to lawyers' acting unethically, which, of course, belies the notion that lawyers should be professionally independent from their clients. I'd like to explore the issue of whether the normative visions of the lawyers' role are the "dog wagging the tail" or the "tail wagging the dog."
Role Ideology
Lawyers can be professionally molded to accommodate various conceptions of lawyering, with some conceptions creating greater pressures to align with clients than others. The effect of all these alignment pressures (including the alignment pressures stemming from economic self-interest) is that lawyers' ethical judgments will sway in the client's favor. (To be clear, I am focusing exclusively on lawyers who represent high-paying corporate clients. I am fully aware that the opposite problem—lawyers exploiting or taking advantage of clients—occurs with many individual or less affluent clients.)
One key variable in determining the strength of an agent's accountability to her principal is her understanding of the nature of her role as attorney and the ideological or normative commitments that such role entails – role ideology. Ideologies about the law come with their own particular normative vision of lawyering and the lawyer's role. Conversely, roles come "ready-made," packaged by society, with their own sets of ideologies or "normative guidelines and values that give meaning and shape behavior." Even an ideology that purports to view the lawyer's role in "morally neutral" or "agnostic" terms still makes a normative choice that we should view her role in such terms.
Role ideologies serve two functions. First, they constitute nontrivial ex ante situational influences that define the universe of socially acceptable norms for that role, to whom or what the lawyer is accountable, and what degree of alignment to (or independence from) the de facto principal (i.e., the client representative) is socially appropriate. When acting in accordance with a role, one simply acts as others expect one to act. As put by philosopher Gerald Postema, "Although there is a personal or idiosyncratic element in any person's conception, nevertheless, because the role of lawyer is largely socially defined, significant public or shared elements are also involved." Thus, socially defined role ideologies can lend ideological legitimation to a given style of lawyering (e.g., lawyering based on "client supremacy"), making it a more palatable option. Over time, a lawyer may come to identify with a particular role ideology and come to believe that her unethical choices are in fact entirely consistent, and even possibly endorsed, by such role ideology.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, role ideologies can serve to legitimate any post hoc rationalizations of unethical behavior by framing the ethical problem in a manner that makes it more attractive to act unethically. As Postema explains, "By taking shelter in the role, the individual places the responsibility for all of his acts at the door of the institutional author of the role." For the person who fully identifies with her role, the response "because I am a lawyer," or more generally "because that's my job," suffices as a complete answer to the question "why do that?" And cognitive dissonance theory predicts that when our internal attitudes do not correspond with our actions, then our internal attitudes are likely to shift to harmonize with our past actions.
In modern legal culture, various role ideologies are available. At one extreme is the "officer of the court" view, the grand vision of a public-regarding role for lawyers that contemplates a broader professional obligation than to act only in the client's (or the lawyer's) self-interest. Under this model, inside counsel, simply by virtue of being a lawyer, would be accountable not only to her client representative but also to the public. In this world, the alignment generated by accountability to the de facto principal might be partial (at best), since lawyers would not only have to consider management's (perhaps fraudulent) goals but also the public welfare. Of course, outside of the legal academy, most lawyers do not live in this world.
At the other extreme, the lawyer's role is shaped by a "law is the enemy" or "libertarian-antinomian" philosophy (to use Robert Gordon's nomenclature), which sees regulation contemptuously as nothing more than a tax on business, a hindrance to the wheels of private commerce. This view is reflected in President Reagan's inaugural address statements: "[G]overnment is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." At Enron, such a view was endorsed by management: senior managers had conducted a skit in which one of the themes was deceiving the SEC. Under this view, the lawyer's role is to assist the client in devising creative ways to circumvent the law regardless of any harm to third parties or the underlying purposes of the law. As the view that is most hostile to law, the alignment to the de facto principal (who favors unlawful actions) would be strong.
In the middle, two agency-centered conceptions characterize how many lawyers view their role. One traditional conception of lawyering that has found tremendous longstanding support by the organized bar and the rules of professional ethics is that the lawyer should be committed to the "aggressive and single-minded pursuit of the client's objectives" within, but all the way up to, the limits of the law. Her zealous advocacy should not be constrained by her own moral sentiments or commitments but only the "objective, identifible bounds of the law." Thus, under this model of partisan loyalty, the lawyer is instructed to interpret legal boundaries from the perspective of maximizing client interest. In this client-centered world, the alignment to the de facto principal would also be strong.
Another middle-of-the-road ideology is the "agnostic" view that law is a "neutral constraint," and – accordingly — the lawyer's role is that of an amoral risk-assessor. This view is characterized by the lack of moral imperative to comply with the law and the lawyer's moral detachment from the law. The lawyer's role is diminished to that of a counselor who games the rules to work around the constraints and lower "tariffs" or "taxes" as much as possible. While this view is not openly hostile to the law, it is not respectful of and thus corrodes the legitimating force of the law. The lack of moral imperative to observe the law means that noncompliance is a feasible, even reasonable, business option.
Which role ideologies predominate in today's corporate legal practice? In my view, one can find empirical evidence of all these role ideologies with different lawyers and in different contexts. That said, I think the two middle-of-the-road ideologies dominate modern corporate representation. You will find the "zealous advocate" model being emulated in litigation practice. The image and rhetoric of the "zealous advocate" also get invoked every time the legal profession fends off external regulation (e.g., regulatory attempts by the SEC). (See Lawyer Exceptionalism in the Gatekeeping Wars for more on the external regulation of the American bar.) You will also find a variant of the "zealous advocate" model that substitutes "adversarialism" with "entrepeneurialism" among transactional lawyers who believe that they are "greasing the wheels of commerce." And, in my opinion, you will find many lawyers who view themselves as amoral risk-assessors. Any of these normative visions of lawyering can be stretched to accommodate unethical behavior.
My guess is that those lawyers who accommodated Lehman Brothers' desire to be less transparent in their public filings were (at least for the moment) adopting something close to the amoral risk-assessor model (which, frankly, is easy to do in highly technical fields like securities regulation or tax). In short, they were "just providing advice," telling clients what the pros and cons of a proposed course of action are and then leaving it to the clients to make the final call, even if that final decision is unethical and/or requires the lawyer's full-blown assistance to implement. Many lawyers feel they can engage in this ethical division of labor ("so long as I give accurate advice and not encourage you to break the law, you can do what you want").
But are these role ideologies the dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog? This question invariably invokes a longstanding debate in social psychology about the extent to which "reasoned deliberation" influences behavior. Some think reason plays a large role in explaining human behavior. Others, like psychologist Jonathan Haidt at Virginia, think that reasons—or more accurately—culturally supplied explanations are more likely to be the rational tail wagging the emotional dog, in other words, a post-hoc construction intended to justify more automatic—and typically, self-interested—judgments. But Haidt qualifies this position. He says that since we are highly attuned to group norms (and subject to strong conformity pressures), we are much less likely to engage in conduct that clearly violates those norms. Accordingly, explicit moral reasoning plays an ex ante role in societies by defining what is or is not acceptable behavior.
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For a more thorough treatment of this topic, please read my more comprehensive works, The Banality of Fraud: Re-Situating the Inside Counsel as Gatekeeper, Gatekeepers Inside Out, and my most recently published article – Lawyer Exceptionalism in the Gatekeeping Wars—which relies on insights from cognitive science to explain why the rhetoric of lawyer exceptionalism, invoked when the legal profession fends off external regulation, is nonetheless so appealing.
For a sample of related Situationist posts, see Part I, Part II and Part III of this series and "How Situational Self-Schemas Influence Disposition," "Categorically Biased – Abstract," "The Situation of John Yoo and the Torture Memos," "The Affective Situation of Ethics and Mediation," "On the Ethical Obligations of Lawyers," "From Heavens to Hells to Heroes – Part II," "Person X Situation X System Dynamics," "Situation" Trumps "Disposition" – Part I & Part II," and "The Need for a Situationist Morality."


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Lawsuits over retiree health premiums headed for court
SPRINGFIELD -- The battle over whether retired public employees should be required to pay health insurance premiums may finally be headed to a Springfield courtroom.
Four lawsuits challenging the legality of such premiums are scheduled for a hearing Feb. 20 before Judge Steven Nardulli. All four have been consolidated into one case.
A central issue to all of the lawsuits is whether retiree health insurance has the same constitutional protections as a pension check. The state Constitution says "membership in any pension or retirement system of the state, any unit of local government or school district, or any agency or instrumentally thereof, shall be an enforceable contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished."
Attorneys for the state argue the lawsuits should be dismissed because retiree health insurance benefits do not fall into the same category as a pension annuity.
"One of the fundamental legal issues is the scope of the application of the pension clause in the Constitution," said Don Craven, co-counsel on one of the lawsuits.
Protected benefit?
The General Assembly last year passed Senate Bill 1313, which called for retired state and university workers, judges and lawmakers to begin paying premiums for their health insurance. Downstate teachers have a separate health insurance plan for retirees, which does charge premiums.
State employees with 20 or more years on the job can retire and continue to be covered by state health insurance without paying premiums for it. Retirees must still pay deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses.
State officials said last summer that 80,000 retirees had premium-free state health insurance. The benefit cost the state $800 million annually, they said.
The bill gave the Department of Central Management Services the power to set premiums for retiree insurance. CMS was instructed to consider things like the size of a person's pension, their years of service and their age at retirement in coming up with a schedule of premiums. Generally, those with large pensions would pay more.
All of the lawsuits argue that retiree health insurance is a protected pension benefit, just like a retirement check. The lawsuit filed by Craven and Springfield attorney John Myers also contends that workers who took advantage of the state's early retirement incentive a decade ago are a special class because they relied on the promise of premium-free health insurance in deciding whether to retire early.
They also contend the law illegally delegates too much authority to CMS to determine premiums.
Never implemented
As for the premiums themselves, they've never been implemented.
The premiums are the subject of contract negotiations between the state and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees that have dragged on for more than a year. The next bargaining session is scheduled for Feb. 6.
Neither CMS nor Gov. Pat Quinn's office responded last week to questions about the premiums. The administration had been counting on saving money in the current budget by having the retiree health insurance premiums in place.
Craven and AFSCME said they have no indication the state is moving ahead with setting premiums at the moment. Moreover, Craven said, the state has assured Nardulli that if it decides to proceed with the premiums, it will notify the court in time to give lawyers opposing the premiums time to attempt to stop them.
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Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies
Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" died Sunday. She was 95.
July 15, 2012 - 12:10 pm
NEW YORK – Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday, a relative said. She was 95.
Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration. She asked her husband on Friday to bring her home and spent her final days with her husband, Frank Basile, and other relatives and close friends by her side, said Amy Phillips, a great-niece of Holm's.
Holm died around 3:30 a.m. at her longtime apartment on Central Park West, located in the same building where Robert De Niro lives and where a fire broke out last month, Phillips said.
"I think she wanted to be here, in her home, among her things, with people who loved her," she said.
In a career that spanned more than half a century, Holm played everyone from Ado Annie – the girl who just can't say no in "Oklahoma!"- to a worldly theatrical agent in the 1991 comedy "I Hate Hamlet" to guest star turns on TV shows such as "Fantasy Island" and "Love Boat II" to Bette Davis' best friend in "All About Eve."
She won the Academy Award in 1947 for best supporting actress for her performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and received Oscar nominations for "Come to the Stable" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950).
Holm was also known for her untiring charity work – at one time she served on nine boards – and was a board member emeritus of the National Mental Health Association.
She was once president of the Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, which treats emotionally disturbed people using arts therapies. Over the years, she raised $20,000 for UNICEF by charging 50 cents apiece for autographs.
President Ronald Reagan appointed her to a six-year term on the National Council on the Arts in 1982. In New York, she was active in the Save the Theatres Committee and was once arrested during a vigorous protest against the demolition of several theaters.
But late in her life she was in a bitter, multi-year family legal battle that pitted her two sons against her and her fifth husband – former waiter Basile, whom she married in 2004 and was more than 45 years her junior. The court fight over investments and inheritance wiped away much of her savings and left her dependent on Social Security. The actress and her sons no longer spoke, and she was sued for overdue maintenance and legal fees on her Manhattan apartment.
The future Broadway star was born in New York on April 29, 1917, the daughter of Norwegian-born Theodore Holm, who worked for the American branch of Lloyd's of London, and Jean Parke Holm, a painter and writer.
She was smitten by the theater as a 3-year-old when her grandmother took her to see ballerina Anna Pavlova. "There she was, being tossed in midair, caught, no mistakes, no falls. She never knew what an impression she made," Holm recalled years later.
She attended 14 schools growing up, including the Lycee Victor Duryui in Paris when her mother was there for an exhibition of her paintings. She studied ballet for 10 years.
Her first Broadway success came in 1939 in the cast of William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life." But it was her creation of the role of man-crazy Ado Annie Carnes in the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical "Oklahoma!" in 1943 that really impressed the critics.
She only auditioned for the role because of World War II, she said years later. "There was a need for entertainers in Army camps and hospitals. The only way you could do that was if you were singing in something."
Holm was hired by La Vie Parisienne, and later by the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel to sing to their late-night supper club audiences after the "Oklahoma!" curtain fell.
The slender, blue-eyed blonde moved west to pursue a film career. "Hollywood is a good place to learn how to eat a salad without smearing your lipstick," she would say.
"Oscar Hammerstein told me, 'You won't like it,'" and he was right, she said. Hollywood "was just too artificial. The values are entirely different. That balmy climate is so deceptive." She returned to New York after several years.
Her well-known films included "The Tender Trap" and "High Society" but others were less memorable. "I made two movies I've never even seen," she told an interviewer in 1991.
She attributed her drive to do charity work to her grandparents and parents who "were always volunteers in every direction."
She said she learned first-hand the power of empathy in 1943 when she performed in a ward of mental patients and got a big smile from one man she learned later had been uncommunicative for six months.
"I suddenly realized with a great sense of impact how valuable we are to each other," she said.
In 1979, she was knighted by King Olav of Norway.
In her early 70s, an interviewer asked if she had ever thought of retiring. "No. What for?" she replied. "If people retired, we wouldn't have had Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud … I think it's very important to hang on as long as we can."
In the 1990s, Holm and Gerald McRainey starred in the CBS's "Promised Land," a spinoff of "Touched by an Angel." In 1995, she joined such stars as Tony Randall and Jerry Stiller to lobby for state funding for the arts in Albany, N.Y. Her last big screen role was as Brendan Fraser's grandmother in the romance "Still Breathing."
Holm was married five times and is survived by two sons and three grandchildren. Her marriage in 1938 to director Ralph Nelson lasted a year but produced a son, Theodor Holm Nelson. In 1940, she married Francis Davies, an English auditor. In 1946, she married airline public relations executive A. Schuyler Dunning and they had a son, Daniel Dunning.
During her fourth marriage, to actor Robert Wesley Addy, whom she married in 1966, the two appeared together on stage when they could. In the mid-1960s, when neither had a project going, they put together a two-person show called "Interplay – An Evening of Theater-in-Concert" that toured the United States and was sent abroad by the State Department. Addy died in 1996.
Funeral arrangements for Holm were incomplete. The family is asking that any memorial donations be made to UNICEF, Arts Horizons or The Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund in Englewood, N.J.


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We've been busy this summer and I've not had much time to write about it!
I was privileged to go to a friend's birth at the very end of July – it turned out to be a long birth and it took me a couple days to recover. I don't know how those midwives do it! Also, we've been getting lots of yummy produce from the farm and we've been trying not to let any go to waste.
Also we have a lot of veggies coming on from the garden. Pictured are onions, beets, cucumbers and turnips.
I did make cherry preserves a couple weeks ago with the cherries I got to pick. Unfortunately I didn't cook it quite long enough, so it was very thin. We've been using it anyway – we just pretend it's cherry syrup. 😉
H was getting worn out from going to the farm on Tuesday and then school on Wednesdays, making Thursday really hard every week, so we switched his school day to Tuesday while E and I are at the farm. He seems to be doing much better with that schedule, which we are all happy about.
Last weekend we went to the Adams County Fair. Our friend, Richard, got us tickets to the truck pull and a parking pass, and my mom and Manuel had food coupons and a parking pass as well, so they joined us. We had a GREAT time. H loved the truck pull with all the noise and the big trucks (though I was cringing terribly from all the black diesel exhaust I was watching needlessly billow into the air – oy!), and we had a blast riding carnival rides, eating yummy carnival food (like the giant brat Rick got) and playing games. We stayed until past midnight! It was a fun treat for everyone.
This weekend I gave the bees their second jar of sugar water. Originally I wasn't going to supplement our bees at all, but we started getting a little concerned that they might not get enough honey built up for the winter after their late start this spring. Not sure if we'll give them more, but hopefully that will help them get a little extra stored for the winter.
We picked a lot of green grapes from the neighbor this weekend, but I'm not sure what to do with them? Anyone know of a way to preserve green grapes? Maybe make raisins?
At any rate, here's the update:
Plant something – Rick planted beets and spinach in the strip by the driveway.
Harvest something – eggs, turnips, onions, cucumbers, zucchini, beets, tomatoes, green seedless grapes from the neighbor across the alley from us!
Preserve something – cherries into cherry preserves; onions hung up in the crawl space; 4 gallon size bags of corn on the cob and nearly two gallons of beans in the freezer; shredded 35 cups of zucchini: froze 30 cups and made five loaves zucchini bread; dried corn husks for making tamales this fall; made and froze double batches of pizza dough, doughnut dough, potato soup (1.5 gallons).
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Robin Roberts will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2013 ESPYS, ESPN announced Tuesday.
The Good Morning America co-anchor is being honored for her inspirational fight against breast cancer and a rare blood disorder, both of which she's battled in the past five years. Roberts was one of the first female sports anchors on ESPN in the '90s before being named co-anchor of GMA in 2005. She returned to GMA last month after taking medical leave to undergo a bone marrow transplant for the blood disorder last summer.
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"Robin brings an amazing amount of energy, compassion and determination to everything she does," ESPN President John Skipper said in a statement. "Those qualities made her an incredible asset during her time here at ESPN, and they have served her well as she battled the terrible health challenges that she's had to face."
"Her unbreakable spirit was ingrained from an early age in Mississippi," ABC News president Ben Sherwood added.
The ESPYS will air July 17 at 9/8c on ESPN.
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Shark are pretty amazing creatures and we should aim to protect them. 50% of the profits go towards ocean conservation efforts.
Jul 25 17for $20 to $50,her
Helping in the kitchen just got a lot more fun. Treats made epic.
Jul 25 17for $20 to $50,kid
Shark Blanket
You're gonna need a bigger bed.
Jul 24 17for $20 to $50,kid
Beautifully hand lettered sign. Amazing attention to detail.
Jul 18 17for $20 to $50,handmade,him
These beautifully illustrated books are a collector's delight. Pre-order your book now!
Jul 18 17for $20 to $50,kid,tested and approved